AMD Athlon X4 750K

[Akagi]

Where on earth did this spring up from? I haven't heard any rumours or speculation about these chips at all.

For the price, the specifications seem very decent. Will look up benchmarks in a few minutes.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-330-AM

And the 740

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-334-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=1946

I must admit I am a little confused as to why these chips exist, there is such a bounty of quad core AMD chips available. Right now you could go to the OcUK store and buy a new Athlon X4, a Trinity A8, a Trinity A10, a LLano A6, a LLano A8, a Bulldozer FX-4, a Piledriver FX-4 or a Phenom II x4... If i'm honest, I couldn't even tell you which chips outbench which anymore.

 

[Akagi]

I have to agree there are so many AMD chips.

OCUK have made a mistake in the description of this chip though.
It doesn't have a GPU built in.

So it is FM2 without the onboard GPU, and an unlocked multi.

Yeah I noticed that mistake there

 

[Akagi]

Bulldozer, Llano, Athlon and Phenom II need to go away... Piledriver and Trinity should stay.

 

[Akagi]

Trinity should stay, everything else is poop

Piledriver is a very good productivity chip for the price.

 

[Akagi]

Don't really see the point of this CPU, it's not really practical given the socket.

Agreed. Perhaps there will be some dirt cheap FM2 motherboards released without the unnecessary support for an on-chip IGP just for these Athlons. Though I doubt it.